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by ralphc 4y ago
On The Tonight Show, Carson explained to guest, Roseanne Barr, that he wanted to quit while still on top of his game. He shared, “Beverly Sills, who's a wonderful opera singer, once said, 'I would much rather have people say to me
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by ralphc 4y ago
Can someone explain why TikTok needs a virtual machine? What are they doing with it that can't be done with a normal web app?
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I used to buy and do light repairs to shortwave and AM radios. A relic of that time is that I have an "isolation transformer", a 1:1 transformer to isolate the radio from ground. 110 in, 110 out.
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If you read down you'll see mention of A batteries and B batteries, used in "farm radios". That's why the batteries you buy now go from C and D, with AA and AAA coming later. Another case of A and B becoming obsolete, li
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Not lately, at a previous job we worked with Linuxes, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX and Linux on 390 mainframes. The reason I'm chiming in is to give my advice to those still dealing with these; learn vi, at least enough to edit config file
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I'd be sympathetic to that pitch if it was a one-person passion project, and the increase was from $5 to $10, but a whole company going up that much? No.
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I'm a little disappointed that "Just Grandma and Me" isn't a first person shooter but other than that, great work!
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I have several Macs that run OS 9, I pull them out just to use the UI at times, I enjoy it so much. It all flows and works together so well.
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I'll testify to this software, I use it on my i9 Catalina Mac and it works great.
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But you didn't switch in December. People don't want to have zero seniority or PTO this time of year, they want their time off to spend with family if they can.
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"You can't harm the computer". I had a TRS-80 and my idea of fun was to write a short BASIC program that would poke random values into random addresses. Sometimes it would change a character in the program that would halt it,
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by ralphc 4y ago
Have you looked into duckdb for the database? I'm hearing for some tasks it's faster than SQLite.
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JLG is always good for a good quote or story. From the article, Today, imagine that you are a young Windows programmer and that I'm a venture capitalist and you come and see me and say, “Mr. Gasse, do I have a deal for you.” “Yes?” “I
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by ralphc 4y ago
I can see needing Python instead of Julia for the libraries, but what about using Julia for new work that you'd normally do in Common Lisp, for the reasons sited in the source article?
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How does Chrome do that, I thought pihole worked through DNS?
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I have a message from the future. The JSParty podcast episode 244, recorded live but not part of their feed yet, is "Is React only great at being popular?"
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I happened to have my 12" PowerBook G4 out, I just installed Sorbet Leopard* on it. I downloaded TinyClock and it's working on it. *Sorbet Leopard is a modern update of Leopard, incorporating speedups from Tiger and the unreleased
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We had this happen to the company I was at around 2015. I heard about it after the fact, good phone interview, a Salesforce position, he's hired (contract I think). Day one the person that shows up barely speaks English and can barely
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I have some PPC macs that have OS 9 on them, I love the UI. I look for excuses to use them whenever I can.
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Back in the '80s I bought a HP 9100 calculator. It weighed 60 pounds and had core memory. I even remember turning it on for the first time and a program stored started running. Anyway, I thought that if the Soviets attacked and wiped o
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by ralphc 4y ago
I'm a "collector" in that I bought the stuff originally and never got rid of it. I recently purchased a FC5025 from device side data. With Apple ][ disks from early 80's, I had about a %50 rate of reading them successful
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by ralphc 4y ago
At my job in the '80s and '90s we were on a program that got us the source code for Windows. In the Windows 3.0 C code there was a label, and corresponding goto statement, "goto wearefucked;". When we got in the 3.1 code
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To elaborate, on the east coast US, using portables such as the Sony SW-55 and the Sangean 909-X, listening in daytime and nighttime, in the past month or so I'd find at best one or two stations broadcasting in English. This was hardly
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I've been a shortwave listener since the 1980s and it's definitely slim pickings now. Internet radio, then podcasts, have killed shortwave.
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I'm just a regular gmail user, with files in google drive and occasionally look at sheets and docs, I don't pay for any of it. What does this mean for people like me, am I a "Legacy G Suite" user?
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A good article on gopher in 2021: https://hackaday.com/2021/09/28/gopher-the-competing-standar... a starting point is gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70
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A good article on the app, https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/05/bereal-app-guide-ex... , complete with kids trying to game it by hanging around the Eiffel Tower until it was time to post https:/&#x2F
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The good stuff will come to you, you'll read about it at Salon or Buzzfeed or see it trending on Twitter.
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Netflix, and Amazon Prime also, the originals are for my exercise bike. Enough to hold my attention but not to hold it so much that I slow down. Back in the 70s and 80s CBS had a rotation of late night dramas that my sister described as &q
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I'm not a Salesforce or Heroku employee, I just orbit their space, do projects, listen to podcasts etc. so this is just speculation on my part. Salesforce is rolling out "Salesforce Functions", like ASW Lambda but for interna

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